Courage Quotes

"The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and-sometimes- with just a touch of madness."

- Paulo Coelho

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity."

- Ricky Martin

"Pain nourishes courage. You cant be brave if youve only had wonderful things happen to you."

- Mary Tyler Moore

"Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage"

- Matt Damon

"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."

- Lech Walesa

"I tend to think you’re fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway."

- Christian Bale

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

"Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people."

- Joe Frazier

"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It’s the mastery of fear. It’s about getting up one more time than we fall down."

- Arianna Huffington

""You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.""

- William Faulkner

"It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind."

- Alex Karras

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

- Robert Kennedy

"Maybe the hardest part of life is just having the courage to try."

- Rachel Hollis

"Recovery is not an easy task. It takes courage, heart, and determination. You have that in you and so much more."

"Always be proud of the steps you have taken to get where you are, no matter how small. It takes courage and strength to beat addiction."

"Cowboy courage trumps the roughest trails."

"Wanting courage is wanting the horse to straddle."

"Courage is galloping into the unknown without looking back."

"Even a lone cowboy feels braver against the odds."

"Step forward and let your courage tell the story."

"Courage feels like laughter at the break of dawn."

"The open range is a theatre of brave stars."

"Courage is a heart that won't stay still."

"Tame the wild winds with courage, not reins."

"A cowboy rides bolder with every fall."

"Pioneering spirit, the hallmark of courage."

"Courage is the bond that holds saddle and man."